Poverty has its advantages. When you're that poor what would you have that anyone would want? Except your peace of mind. Your dignity. Your heart. The important things.

I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting.

Something about giving himself over to a woman was worse than having lunch with the devil.

For things to have value in man's world, they are given the role of commodities. Among man's oldest and most constant commodity is woman.

People like to think of themselves as purists, but there is no such thing as purity, when there exists so much contact.

It is an absolute impossibility in this society to reversely sexually objectify heterosexual men, just as it is impossible for a poor person of color to be a racist. Such extreme prejudice must be accompanied by the power of society's approval and legislation. While women and poor people of color may become intolerant, personally abusive, even hateful, they do not have enough power to be racist or sexist.

Human sexuality has been regulated and shaped by men to serve men's needs.